BLOCKCHAIN, SMART CONTRACTS E NON-FUNGIBLE TOKEN (NFT): A tríade Paradigmática no âmbito dos documentos acadêmicos

Abstract

Higher Education Institutions in Brazil were forced to migrate the records from the analog information environment to the digital information environment, as provided for in Ordinance no. 613/2023, of the Ministry of Education. Thus, in modern times, technologies such as blockchain, smart contracts and non-fungible tokens have emerged. Therefore, these can be applied to documents produced in higher education institutions in Brazil and, therefore, the question arises as to what are the possible applications of blockchain, smart contracts and non-fungible token technologies in digital records in the academic field in Brazil. The objective is to relate the possible applications of blockchain, smart contracts and non-fungible token technologies in the context of archival science, specifically in documents from academic collections. To this end, bibliographic, documentary, qualitative and exploratory research was used as a methodology. Data collection took place through national and international literature in books, articles, dissertations, theses and regulations in Portuguese and English. As a result, it was found that the blockchain protocol encrypts, sends and validates transactions, which provide an unalterable chronological record of all operations performed. Thus, it becomes feasible to apply blockchain technology in conjunction with smart contracts, since this technology can produce documents automatically, through self-executing lines of code, which produce specific types of records in the academic domain. Finally, the triad of disruptive technologies is consolidated with the application of the non-fungible token, in conjunction with the blockchain and smart contracts conglomerate, since the latter guarantees the originality of the digital archival document, through tokenization.